Stitch separating and shaping machine.



No. 653,236. Patented m ID, 19100.

. J.'B. HADAWAY.

STITCH SEPARATING AND SHAPING MACHINE.

(Application filed Jan. 5, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

'- JQHN'B."HADAWAY, OF BRO-,KTON, MASSACHUSETTS,

ISTITCH SEPARATING AND SHAPIING MACHINE.

SPEGIFlGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,236, dated July 10, 1900.

Application filed January 5, 1900. I Serial No. 420. (No model.) I

v To all whom it may concern:

' Massachusettahaveinvented certain'new and usefal'Improvements in Stitch Separating and Shaping Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de'-. scription of'the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to stitch-finishing machines, and more particularly to that type of stitch-finishing machine disclosed in reissued Letters Patent of the United States No. 11,538, granted to me on the 12th day of May, 1896. The machine of the said patent comprises. a stitch-separating tool arranged to mark or indent the intervals between the, stitches; and said tool is actuated by automatic mechanism which locates the working end thereof in the intervals between the stitches of a seam, whether said stitches be of uniform or varying length, and after the working end of the tool has been so located in successive intervals the said tool is positively thrust down to mark or indent the work between the stitches and adjacent to the stitches in line with the intervals therebetween. The automatic locating'of the tool of the said machine is controlled solely by the intervals between the stitches, and said tool acts only on the intervals between the stitches or in said intervals and the surface of the work adjacent to and in line with saidintervals. It is deemed desirable in some classes of work to act on the crowns at stitches where they appear on the surface of the work, as well as to mark and indent the work in line with the' intervals between the stitches, and thus impartto the crowns of the stitches a uniform shape, which is found to add greatly to the stitches, thus at a single operation indenting and marking the work or separating the stitches, as it is called, and shaping the-crowns of the stitches, imparting thereto a-uniform' ap earance.

furtherobject of the invention is to so construct the stitch-finishing tool that the separating or marking blade will be assisted in its automatic locating. movements by the rating and shaping tool provided with'a separating-blade and a shaping-grooveand means to automatically cause the separating-blade and the shaping-groove to engage, respectively, the intervals between the stitches and shaping-groove, the blade entering the intersists of'a machine comprising a stitch sepa- 4 the crowns of the stitches, whether said stitches be of uniform or varying length.

The'present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which it is shown as being embodied in themachine disclosed in the patent hereinbefore mentioned, and whereinp Figure 1 showsin front elevation portions of the machine with my improved stitch separating and shaping tool in position therein.

Fig. 2 shows'a section of themachine as shown in Fig. 1, taken on the line mm, Fig. 1. Fig. 3

shows in broken front elevation myimproved stitch separating and. shaping tool enlarged.

Fig. 4 shows inside elevation the lower end of said tool.

Similar reference characters will be used to designate corresponding parts throughout the specification and drawings.

. In the drawings, 1 indicates a lever fulcrumed at 2 on the slide 3, said slide being arranged to reciprocate in the guideway 4.- The tool-stock 5 is pivotally supported by the stud G on the lever 1. The lever 7, fulcrumed at 8, engages at its forward end a projection 9 on the lever 1, whereby to positively depress the lever 1 and impart to the stitch separatin g and shaping tool its downward movement to separate or indent the intervals between the' stitches and to shape thecrowns of the stitches. The spring 10 is connected by means of a vsc'rew-rod'll to the lever 1 and acts normally to depress said lever and hold the working end of the tool in contact with the lihe f f stitches during the lateral reciprocations said tool or the locating movements thereof.

12 is a work-support; and 13 an edge gage.

All of the foregoing parts except as will'be hereinafter specified may be and preferably are constructed, organized, and operated as corresponding parts in the machine of the patent hereinbefore referred to. c

1 My improved stitch separating and shaping tool 14 is provided at its lower end with a marking-blade 15, which enters the spaces or intervals between the stitches and marks or creases the work at the intervals between the stitches, and upon one side. of the blade 15there is formed a shaping-groove 16, ex-

tending from back to front of the lower end of the tool, arranged to engage the crown of a stitch adjacent to the marking-blade 15 and I impartto the crowns of the stitches a rounding shape,.all as will be clearly understood from-an inspection of the drawings.

In the machine of said patent, while the stitch-separating tool is held yieldingly in contact with the line of stitches by means of" the spring 10, the slide 3 has imparted thereto lateral reciprocations for the purpose of' causing the marking-blade to enter the space between two adjacent stitches, or, as it is called, to automatically locate its point in the intervals between two stitches, and after such tool has been so located the lever 7 is rocked about its fulcrum 8 and, acting upon the projection 9 of the lever 1, forcibly depresses said lever and imparts to the tool its marking or separating movement. In the present machine the blade 15 is automatically located in the intervals between the stitches in a similar manner; but it has been found by experiment that the presence of the shaping-groove ma terially assists the marking-blade in locati1'1g the interval between two adjacent stitches, as said shaping-groove will engage the crown of the stitch to the left of the marking-blade and thus assist in maintaining the working end of the tool fixed after it shall have been located during the subsequent lateral reciprocati-ons of the tool-stock and its carrying-1e ver,

- and it will therefore be seen that I have provided an improved machine which not only separates or indents the intervals between the stitches, but also shapes the crowns of the stitches, and one at the same time which will more sur ly locate the working endof the tool with relation tothe stitches.

In the operation of the machine the lever 1,

carrying the tool-stock 5, is actuated in .all respects substantially as the lever 1 which carries the separating-tool in the machine of the patent hereinbefore referred to, and when the piece of work to be operated upon is prop- I erly supported upon the work-support 12 the lateral automatic locating movements imparted tothetool by the reciprocations of the slide 3 will cause said tool to move over the stitches upon which it is lightly held by the spring 10 until the blade 15 engages an interval between two' stitches and e the groove 16 engages the crownv of an adjacent stitch, and'whenever the. blade 15 engages a space between two stitches and the shaping-groove 16 the crown of the next adjacent stitch a positive downward movement will be imparted to the tool,,causing the intervals to he indented and the crownfof-thestitch to be Y shaped.

While I have in the accompanying drawings illustrated the shaping-groove 16 as being rounded and have described said groove 'asimparting a rounded appearance to the crown f a stitch, it will be obvious that the shape 0 said groove will be determined by the shape-which it is desired to impart to the crowns of the stitches-for instance, the shape of the groove may be V-shaped to'impart to the crowns of the stitches a corresponding shape.-

' Having thus described the construction and mode of operation of my machine, I claim as "novel and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United S tates- .Il a "machine, forseparating and shaping stitches, the combination with a work-support, of a; stitch separating and shapingv toolprovided wit-ha separating-blade and a shaping-groove located'at one side'of and above said blade, and means for automatically locating'the separating-blade in the in.-

tervals between the stitches and the shaping- 

